A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the regressive alliance seeking to undermine the new coalition government at every turn. If that seemed vague and abstract then, it certainly doesn’t any more.
We should at least respect the Daily Telegraph’s candidness; it’s attacks on David Laws and Danny Alexander have been explicitly linked with their [...]
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Will we get fairer taxes under the coalition?
Celebrating 100 years of liberals fighting the ‘taxpayers’ alliance’
Yesterday, obscure fact fans, was the 98th anniversary of the first Parliament Act*. The Parliament Act 1911 came about because of Asquith, Lloyd George and Churchill’s 1909 ‘People’s Budget’ which proposed paying for, among other things, the first state pension with a rise in taxation aimed mostly at the most wealthy – and in [...]
